Just like the sham scenario that played out in Yobe State and Akwa Ibom State, a repeat performance may play out in Ogun State, barring any unforeseeable circumstance.

The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, who contested and lost out in the presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress had asked Bashir Machina, the winner of the National Assembly primary in Yobe North Senatorial District, which he (Lawan) represents in the Senate, to step down for him in order to retain his seat. Machina had refused, insisting he was going ahead to contest in the 2023 general election.

Miffed at being rebuffed, party leaders simply swapped his name for that of Lawan in the list submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Similarly in Akwa Ibom State where Godswill Akpabio, the erstwhile minister of Niger Delta Affairs who contested but stepped down for Bola Ahmed Tinubu to emerge the APC presidential flagbearer, had his name submitted to INEC as the representative of Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District rather than that of the actual winner, a former Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Udom Ekpoudom.

The same scenario is about to play out in Ogun State as Afolabi Salisu, the Chief of Staff to Governor Dapo Abiodun is being pressured to hand over the Ogun Central Senatorial ticket to Senator Ibikunle Amosun, who did not indicate any interest to return to the Senate but was gunning for the presidency and later stepped down for Tinubu.

Salisu won the ticket during the APC primary election organised by Abiodun’s faction of the party.

Senator Amosun’s camp did not hold a parallel primary election leaving Abiodun’s men to take all the APC tickets to elective positions in Ogun State.

Although the request of the former governor was rebuffed, he has however ordered his men to maintain peace while he worked out a solution at the national level of the party.

Amosun is alleged to be leveraging his support for a ‘Tinubu presidency’ and other influences he has within the APC and the presidency to negotiate sharing tickets of elective positions to his loyalists, as well as retaining his senatorial seat.

Stakeholders are allegedly fashioning out how to make the arrangement work while taking into consideration the sentiments of other groups like the Gbenga Daniel and Olusegun Osoba groups in a bid to make the party stronger in the state ahead of the 2023 general election.

Both Amosun and Abiodun factions have been at war over who controls the party structure in Ogun.

The former governor leveraged his closeness to the presidency to corner all federal appointments allocated to Ogun since 2019 for his loyalists and has remained ahead in the fight for control of the APC in the state.

The governor however lost the opportunity of a thorough win by siding with the ‘wrong’ presidential aspirant, giving Amosun who teamed up with Tinubu, the perfect foothold for a comeback.

Will Amosun succeed in returning to the Senate with his so-called connections? That remains to be seen.

https://thewillnigeria.com/news/ibikunle-amosun-in-last-minute-moves-to-force-return-to-senate/
Mynd44
Lalasticlala

BAT 2023

The greediness of these former Governors is now very worrisome.


Vote Tinubu 2023. Vote APC.

U no go boil beans,chop rice.
Na wetin u boil,u go chop.

DIS USELESS GUY FROM OGUN STATE

Wonderful